The 38-year-old “PBS NewsHour” began a new era, adding Saturday and Sunday newscasts for the first time and preparing for the debut on Sept 9 of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as the new weeknight anchor team and the first female co-anchors at any network.
Aereo Wins Send Networks on Hunt to Stop Streaming TV
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Broadcasters stymied by court losses in New York are turning to judges in California and Massachusetts in their campaign to shut down the Aereo.
Democracy May Prove the Doom of WBAI
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WBAI likes to call itself “radio for the 99 percent.” But most of the time the station — a listener-supported and proudly scrappy mainstay of the left since 1960 — is lucky to be heard by 0.1 percent of the New York radio audience. That disparity, and the teetering finances of the station and its owner, the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, became apparent with a tearful on-air announcement by Summer Reese, Pacifica’s interim executive director, that the station was laying off 19 of its 29 employees just to cover basic expenses like the rent for its transmitter atop the Empire State Building.
Cord Cliff Coming: What Happens to TV When Netflix Streams Live Events?
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Sooner or later, it is likely that Netflix will go against the initial promise of its CEO, Reed Hastings, and stream live events.
RNC votes to exclude CNN, NBC from 2016 presidential primary debates
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The Republican National Committee formally decided August 16 not to partner with CNN and NBC News for any presidential primary debates during the 2016 election cycle, a rebuke of the networks’ plans to air programs about Hillary Rodham Clinton.
FCC Opens Docket on Media General and New Young Broadcasting Merger
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The Federal Communications Commission has opened a docket on Media General's bid to merge with New Young Broadcasting.
Broadcast TV landscape is shifting under FCC
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The string of broadcast television station ownership deals capped by the announcement of a sale by Allbritton Communications puts pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to keep its eye on the broadcast industry even as the agency is going through its own makeover. Taken together, the deals signal a reshaping of the broadcast business as it consolidates into larger station ownership groups that provide more leverage as they buy programming and sell it to pay-TV operators.